Tim Blake Nelson
Biography
Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright. Described as a "modern character actor, his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the titular character of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021). He portrayed Wade Tillman / Looking Glass in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020.
Nelson's directorial credits include Eye of God (1997), which was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and an Independent Spirit Award; O (2001), a modern-day adaptation of Othello; and the Holocaust drama The Grey Zone (2001). Eye of God and The Grey Zone were both adapted from Nelson's own plays. Nelson has also co-directed music videos for Billy Woods and Kenny Segal, including "Babylon by Bus" and "Soft Landing." He also co-directed the music video for Armand Hammer feat. Pink Siifu's "Trauma Mic."
Nelson recently published his debut novel, City of Blows (2023), an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood.
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Acting (84 movies)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Syriana
2005
Meet the Fockers
2004
The Incredible Hulk
2008
Fido
2006
Hamlet
2000
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
2004
Nightmare Alley
2021
Wonderland
2003
American Violet
2008
The Astronaut Farmer
2007
Come Early Morning
2006
Holes
2003
Ghosts of the Ozarks
2022
The Thin Red Line
1998
The Last Shot
2004
Saint John of Las Vegas
2010
Leaves of Grass
2009
The Good Girl
2002
The Big White
2005
Flypaper
2011
Bereft
2004
The Amateurs
2006
Warm Springs
2005
The Darwin Awards
2006
Hoot
2006
Cherish
2002
A Foreign Affair
2004
Lincoln
2012
Detachment
2011
The Big Year
2011
Big Miracle
2012
Asleep in My Palm
2024
Yelling To The Sky
2011
Child of God
2014
As I Lay Dying
2013
Adventures in the Sin Bin
2012
Blue Caprice
2013
My Suicidal Sweetheart
2005
Greedy People
2024
Snake & Mongoose
2013
The Invisibles
2024
The Homesman
2014
The Sound and the Fury
2015
Captain America: Brave New World
2025
Kill the Messenger
2014
Fantastic Four
2015
Ninety-Five Senses
2022
The Bricklayer
2023
Ghosted
2023
Bang Bang
2025
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
2014
Anesthesia
2016
Minority Report
2002
The Confirmation
2016
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018
Colossal
2017
This Is My Life
1992
Black Dog, Red Dog
2015
The Institute
2017
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
2017
Amateur
1994
Heavyweights
1995
Wormwood
2017
Monster
2021
Angel Has Fallen
2019
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
Donnie Brasco
1997
The Report
2019
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
2019
Sequestrada
2019
Just Mercy
2019
Naked Singularity
2021
The True Don Quixote
2019
Joe's Apartment
1996
The Jesus Rolls
2019
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
Down from the Mountain
2001
Old Henry
2021
National Champions
2021
The Testament of Ann Lee
2025
Atropia
2025
On the End
2025
Directing (6 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Eye of God | 1997 | Screenplay |
| The Grey Zone | 2001 | Writer |
| The Grey Zone | 2001 | Producer |
| Leaves of Grass | 2009 | Writer |
| Leaves of Grass | 2009 | Producer |
| Anesthesia | 2016 | Writer |
| Anesthesia | 2016 | Producer |
| Asleep in My Palm | 2024 | Producer |